The 2018 Adelaide Festival promises a program rich with Australian and international voices, bold new visions and contemporary theatre classics, as Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy return to the helm for their second Adelaide Festival in 2018.
The Adelaide Festival Board has also announced that it has extended the contract of the Joint Artistic Directors for a further two festivals, with their tenure culminating in 2021.
Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, have confirmed the record-breaking production will open in early 2019 in Melbourne, Australia, exclusively and only at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre.
Following its Australian premiere in Sydney, the producers have confirmed that Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will travel to Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide in 2018. It will begin performances at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre on 16 February, and play Brisbane’s Lyric Theatre, QPAC from July 2018 and Adelaide’s Festival Theatre from December 2018.
The four leading men cast by Broadway director Des McAnuff to play Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in the hit musical JerseyBoys have been announced.
After auditioning 450 artists nationwide, the cast is a combination of exciting and emerging Australian talent. They will star in the keenly-anticipated season of JerseyBoys, which opens at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre in September 2018.
The 2017 Rob Guest Endowment Finalists have been announced. Competing against over 250 applicants, six artists were chosen by an expert panel of judges, which included Kellie Dickerson, Martin Croft, David Skelton, Dana Jolly, Andrew Pole, Michael Tyack, Geoffrey Castles and Gary Young.
The 2017 Finalists are Stefanie Caccamo, Jayme-Lee Hanekom, Georgina Hopson, Thomas McGuane, Imogen Moore and Morgan Palmer.
Now in its eighth successful year, Sport for Jove Theatre’s 2018 season features the world premiere of two new Australian works and an iconic American classic, new partnerships with regional theatres, and their annual Summer Season, two classic productions performed outdoors over the Sydney summer.
OUTDOOR SPORT – SUMMER 2017/18
Measure For Measure
By William Shakespeare
Directed By Lizzie Schebesta
The Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney has announced its 2018 season of musicals and cabaret. Going into its fifth year of programming this is the first time an entire year has been announced.
